Actor-producer Anil Kapoor says acting earlier was more difficult as actors back then used to get scripts in the “nick of time”.
Kapoor appeared on the children’s song and dance reality show Sa Re Ga Ma Pa Li’l Champs Season 6 to promote his film Mubarakan. On the show, he recreated a dialogue from his 1985 film Meri Jung, where he confronts the villain Thakral, played by late actor Amrish Puri.
“Back then, acting was not as easy as it is now. In today’s times, the actors get their script almost six months in advance whereas earlier we would be given the scripts just in the nick of time,” he said. “The scene in which I had to confront Amrish ji was decided at 2pm and given to me at 4pm. The director, Subhash Ghai, told me that we will start shoot in an hour’s time and I only had that much time to prepare.”
Kapoor continued: “I was very apprehensive as the lines were long and the scene was an intense one. When I told the director that I cannot do this scene in such a short span of time, he turned around and asked me to just deliver the lines and leave the rest up to him.
“It was with that assurance that all my insecurities melted away and the scene came out so wonderfully that it became a rage,” he added.
